World Athletics was trying to replace the narrower take-off board in long jump events with a larger take-off zone with an aim ...

World Athletics will trial a new format for the long jump this year in a bid to reduce the number of fouls in competition – but the idea to change the long-standing event has received plenty of ...

GLASGOW, Scotland -- Miltiadis Tentoglou threatened to quit the long jump shortly after winning the world indoor title Saturday, saying he would change events if the sport implements a rule change ...

Ivana Spanovic is a world-class long jumper from Serbia. She is a four-time Olympian and won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio. Spanovic has the third-best long jump indoors, a leap of ...

World Athletics has ditched a reform to the long jump that would have replaced the traditional board behind which jumps must ...

(Gray News) - Tara Davis-Woodhall of the United States won gold in the women’s long jump event Thursday at the Paris Olympics. Davis-Woodhall won her first Olympic title, and first Olympic medal of ...

Germany's Malaika Mihambo in action during the women's long jump qualification at the indoor European Championships. Olympic long jump champion Malaika Mihambo will cope fine if World Athletics ...

Making history at the Region IV track and field championships in the boys long jump on Friday morning at Dimond High School wasn’t the goal for Bartlett’s A’Lante Owens-Player. But the senior standout ...

The United States has captured another gold in track and field after Tara Davis-Woodhall won the women’s long jump at 7.10 meters. Davis-Woodhall, egging on the crowd with a "Skol" clap during her ...

JuVaughn Harrison will compete in the high jump and long jump at the Olympics. He is the first American man since Jim Thorpe in 1912 to do both in the same Olympics. He stuck with the long jump in ...